Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Developer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £494/day (Outside IR35). This role can be fully remote.

Responsibilities:

- Research and development of novel solutions that enable the organisation's automation goals.
- Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that's focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts.
- Extend and sustain the high-quality support procedures, dashboards, monitoring and deployment capabilities to ensure the team can continue to improve services via feedback.
- Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
- Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, techniques, and experience.
- Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests - with appropriate code coverage - and code analysis using code quality tools.
- Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc...
- Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (Legacy and otherwise) that underpins the service.
- Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
- Coaching and mentoring other team members, as appropriate.

Essential Skills:

- OCR and lexical analysis techniques including NLP (Spacy) and ML
- AWS including CDK, Serverless (Lambda), S3, API Gateway, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres
- Python/Typescript
- Making excellent quality software with other people.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business including Product Management, Service Design, and Operations.
- Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
- Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
- Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
- Formal XP engineering techniques.
- Defining infrastructure-as-code.

Desirable Skills:

- AWS AI and OCR services such as Textract, ML/MLOps
- OpenShift/Kubernetes/Docker
- PyTorch

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.